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Curiosity Rover Catches Stunning Martian Dawn (lemmy.world)
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The captivating shapes of wind-carved crags called yardangs are revealed in this zoomed-in crop of a broader panorama captured by NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover on Aug. 11, 2026. Scientists are eager to learn more about how the yardang layer formed. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS

The full press release is on this link

https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/nasas-curiosity-rover-catches-stunning-martian-dawn/

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[–] 5 points 1 month ago (1 child)

https://th-thumbnailer.cdn-si-edu.com/MPiFjxFr4vMCl3ZipVzQ2AaPJCU=/fit-in/1072x0/https://tf-cmsv2-smithsonianmag-media.s3.amazonaws.com/cms_page_media/2014/5/14/42-20703499.jpg

Holy crap this is otherworldly, wow.

Super cool! Thanks for the info. Great posts here as always, I love reading your writeups

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  • [–] [S] 3 points 1 month ago

    Holy crap this is otherworldly, wow. We live on a very geologically diverse planet, but share many of those geologies with the other rocky planets like Mars :) The car in that shot really provides scale for those Yardangs in the Gobi desert :)

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